BBC search engine Re: [Upd-discuss] Re: Are publishers relevant?

[Mashilamani Sambasivam]

Speaking on search engine, BBC has its own 
search engine. BBC is publicly funded
(by taxpayer's money not govt.) and independent.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/search/whysearch.shtml 
http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/purpose/ 

In my opinion, important institutions like
journalist organisations and 'search engines'
should be funded by the taxpayer's money.

Point is - There is a huge difference between
privately owned journalistic papers/news orgs
, which are demand driven, and can be influenced
by competitors and money. Even the US media
supported the iraq war, though they have the
most independent best newspapers like 
washingtonpost (of nixon fame) and nytimes.
Ofcourse we now know no WMDs in iraq.

This implies that important institutions
need to be funded by taxpayers' money
and need to be autonomous. they shouldnt be
funded by govt. or privately owned.

Search engines are the eyes to the web. Whoever
controls the major search engines control the
web. 

Masi


> But time is change in essence -- I mean, read the
> comment on this one 
> about Google:
> 
>
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/02/334122.html?c=on#c142593
> 
> Should we not have anything to do with Google, or
> should we kop the fact 
> that this group of folk have more shout in the world
> than a few nation 
> states put-together and we do have vested interests
> and if we are that 
> bothered then we can always ask them and until we do
> there's no point in 
> blackhearting them. Dunno, that was a question.



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